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Author Knapp, Ronald G., 1940-

Title Peranakan Chinese home : art and culture in daily life / by Ronald G. Knapp ; photography by A. Chester Ong
Published Rutland, Vt. : Tuttle Publishing, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (160 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Contents House forms and facades -- Symbols and iconography -- The reception hall -- The courtyard -- The ancestral hall -- The living areas -- The bedroom -- The kitchen
Summary Discover the rarified Peranakan (native-born Chinese of Southeast Asia) aesthetics that are today highly sought-after for their beauty: distinctive furniture and ceramics, textiles and jewelry, and many other art objects. Peranakan Chinese Home displays these extraordinary objects, visible markers of a highly developed culture. The broad range of beautiful objects which the Peranakan Chinese created and enjoyed in their daily lives is astounding. Each chapter in Peranakan Chinese Home focuses on a different area and presents objects used or found in those spaces. Each
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Architecture, Domestic -- Southeast Asia
Architecture, Chinese -- Southeast Asia
Decorative arts, Peranakan.
Peranakan (Asian people) -- Dwellings
Architecture, Chinese
Architecture, Domestic
Decorative arts, Peranakan
Southeast Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Ong, A. Chester (Andrew Chester)
ISBN 1462911854
9781462911851